A Wanderer's Notebook

A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

star 7.2
  • Release Date: 1962-09-29
  • Runtime: 2h 4min
  • Director: Mikio Naruse

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Cast

  • Hideko Takamine

    Fumiko Hayashi

  • Akira Takarada

    Fukuya

  • Daisuke Katō

    Nobuo Sadaoka

  • Keiju Kobayashi

    Fujiyama

  • Kinuyo Tanaka

    Kishi, Fumiko's mother

  • Mitsuko Kusabue

    Kyôko Hinatsu

  • Noboru Nakaya

    Haruhiko Itatsu

  • Yūnosuke Itō

    Gorô Shirasaka

  • Jun Tatara

    Tamura

  • Masao Oda

    Fumiko's father

  • Takeshi Katō

    Uenoyama

  • Tomoko Fumino

    Yasuko Murano

  • Natsuko Kahara

  • Chōko Iida

  • Machiko Kitagawa

  • Yurika Benisono

  • Chieko Nakakita

  • Toshiko Yabuki

  • Kin Sugai

  • Hisaya Ito

  • Mineko Yorozuyo

  • Shigeki Ishida

  • Yutaka Nakayama

  • Akira Nagoya

  • Rumi Konishi

  • Michiko Kawa

  • Masae Yoshikawa

  • Tatsuo Endō

  • Chisato Aoki

  • Kazuko Inano

  • Masako Yagi

  • Michiko Hayashi

  • Akiko Mori

  • Yoshiko Uno

  • Yachiyo Kirishima

  • Fumiko Umeka

  • Asao Uchida

  • Toshiaki Nishizawa

  • Hiroyuki Sugi

  • Katsuhiro Oida

  • Shin Kishida

  • Daigo Kusano

  • Isao Hashizume

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